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Bowels

Passages from across the Bible

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Diseased

  • 2 Chronicles 21:15–20 And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’” Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites. So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carrie…

Judas', gushed out

  • Acts 1:18 (Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.

Figurative

Of the sensibilities

  • Genesis 43:30 Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
  • 1 Kings 3:26 Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
  • Job 30:27 I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
  • Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
  • Psalm 5:4 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
  • Jeremiah 4:19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
  • Jeremiah 31:20 Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
  • Lamentations 1:20 See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
  • Philippians 1:8 God is my witness how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
  • Philippians 2:1 Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
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Colossians 3:12 1 John 3:17

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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.